Hareketli Ortalama Average - Modified Method by Perry J. Kaufman

At 11:53 AM 1/5/98 -0800, you wrote:

Is it possible to calculate the MODIFIED moving average (Perry Kaufman) within Metastock? I am told it can be done with TradeStation and CQG..

Here is the formula:-
MAV(t) = MAV(t-1) + [P(t)-MAV(t-1)]/n

Where:
MAV(t) is the current modified moving average
MAV(t-1) is the previous modified moving average value
P(t) is the current price (or value to be smoothed)

The starting point is calculated as a simple moving average..

When I try this in Metastock I get an error about a circular reference (due to referring to the prior day's value of this formula).

Thanks in advance,
-Neal.


From The New Commodity Trading Systems and Methods,by Perry J. Kaufman
Chapter 4 - Moving Averages, pg. 60.
This formula is for version 6.5 of MetaStock for Windows 95 & NTonlyand cannot be written in previous version.
This is a modified simple moving average.
The formula will prompt you for input for the number of time periodsto use in the moving average.

Average - Modified Method
Day:=Cum(1)+1;
Z:=Input("Periods",2,1000,5);
MV:=(1/Z);
If(Day<(Z+2),C,If(day=(Z+2),Mov(C,LastValue(Z),S),PREV+(MV*(C-PREV))))



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